Steven Alvarez is an Assistant Professor of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of The Pocho Codex (2011) and The Xicano Genome (2012), both published by the Latin American publisher Editorial Paroxismo. His poetry has appeared in Acentos Review, Blue Mesa Review, The Drunken Boat, EAOGH, Fence, Hinchas de Poesia, Kuikatl, Moria, The Newer York, Otoliths, phati’tude, and Shampoo. In 2008, the Poetry Society of America selected his poem “& So Tio & Chaley” as one of the best poems about Times Square.